The proposals regarding employment and training schemes are less important than preparing returning emigrants for the radical changes that have occurred here over the past 20 years. Many people with young families who returned for the Celtic tiger period are now finding it difficult to readjust because the Ireland they remembered is totally different to the country today. Although I was single at the time, I found it difficult to readjust to coming home after seven years away in the 1970s. I have met many married people who found it difficult to readjust when they returned here after living abroad. In fact, there is more than anecdotal evidence to suggest that an increasing number could not make it work and dcided to return to England or America after only two or three years here. That was because their children could not settle, their accents were different or they faced all sorts of subtle racial abuse. I know "racial" is a terrible word to use when we are talking about our own, but they were seen as being different. Some parents found it difficult to readjust to the social environment and also found it difficult to reconnect because they were not going back to areas from which they had emigrated but to new dormitory towns.